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welcome to "world news." tonight, caught. the great escape now over. this evening, we take you inside the final moments of freedom for two convicted killers who fooled their way out of prison. and tonight, new questions about who was going to be driving that getaway car. air disaster. the families stunned in an american neighborhood as they watched it all unfold in midair. the last image before this doomed flight and it comes after another wing walker and her pilot were lost, too. why do they do it? heart stopper. a scene right out of the tv hit "homeland." why former vice president dick cheney feared terrorists could kill him by turning off his pacemaker. and now, his doctors reveal their real fear on one of america's darkest days. and, sweet ride. the nfl star, the multimillion dollar paycheck and his $2 car. a '91 sedan, 124,000 miles.
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come along for the ride tonight. good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a sunday night. and we do begin this evening with that massive break in the case after that massive manhunt for two convicted killers who escaped from a florida prison. it came to an end outside this motel, just 100 miles from the prison where they were serving life behind bars, and just hours before they were hoping to hitch a ride out of the state. instead, tonight, they're now locked up, appearing in court, one at a time. soon to be sent back to where they started. authorities saying the elaborate plan that included forged documents to get them out means they most certainly had help. more arrests could be coming, and abc's steve osunsami is in panama city tonight. >> reporter: police had quietly tracked the two convicted murderers to this panama city motel. and at 5:20 saturday night local time, they had them surrounded. their bull horns and firearms
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all aimed at room 227. 34-year-old fugitives charles walker and joe jenkins had no way out. >> we made announcements over our p.a. system that they were surrounded and after about a minute or two, both of the fugitives came out and surrendered to us. >> reporter: the very clever escaped prisoners appeared in a county court today. >> jenkins, joseph. >> reporter: still waiting to be handed over to prison officials. police questioning them all night. >> there's been a request you be held without bond. >> reporter: today, state authorities told us the men had help. that they traveled here separately and were waiting on a ride out of town. police promise more arrests as soon as possible. >> the piece we know is that it was being dispatched from atlanta. who was the driver, or where that driver was going to take them after he or she got here, we do not know. >> reporter: there's just no way to sugar coat how big an embarrassment this has been to state authorities. from their prison cells, walker and jenkins somehow produced forged documents that were good enough for corrections officials
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to release the men from their life sentences without parole. >> it is embarrassing. everyone else here is making sure that we come up with a process and a procedure that prohibits this from happening in the future. >> reporter: the papers included a judge's signature. >> they cut and paste my signature and affixed it to the order. >> reporter: in panama city, where the two men were hiding out, they're frustrated with prison officials. police are looking closely at their friends on the outside who may have deposited money into their prison canteen accounts. those accounts are used to buy food, hygiene and other products that work like cash in prison. david? >> steve osunsami, thank you. and also from florida tonight, a horrific scene playing out over that american neighborhood. a stuntman at an air show falling to his death as neighbors looked on. here's abc's rob nelson now. >> reporter: 62-year-old stuntman marc curto was 1,000 feet in the air when bravery turned to tragedy. >> a male fell out of an airplane. the plane was flying really low.
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>> reporter: curto was walking along the wing of this plane during saturday's festival of flight event near tampa, florida, when he fell to his death. officials say he was flying too low for his parachute to open and he plunged into the back yards of a neighborhood below. >> i knew what happened and it kind of made me sick. i just -- had to separate myself from -- it upset me. >> reporter: for both onlookers and the daredevils themselves, flirting with danger is part of the thrill. but this is just the latest example of when those thrills turn tragic. >> watch this. jane wicker, sitting on top of the world! >> reporter: in june, a stunned crowd at an ohio air show watched as this stunt turned into a fiery nightmare, claiming the life of veteran performer jane wicker and her pilot. in 2011, abc's "20/20" talked with wing walker ashley battles, whose passion is not dampened by the risk. >> at this moment, what are you
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holding onto up there? >> a prayer. a wing and a prayer. >> reporter: tonight, there are still questions about whether curto was an actual wing walker or simply a parachutist. even still, the faa told abc news there are no federal wing walker regulations, though the agency does oversee air show operations. meanwhile, a florida community remains rattled. rob nelson, abc news, new york. >> rob, thank you. to san francisco tonight and to another troubling scene on that city's railway system. two workers hit and killed by a b.a.r.t. train. despite a strike that's shut down the system. the workers were inspecting the tracks. an operator was on board that train that hit them but it was under computer control at the time. one union suspended picketing today out of respect for the victims. that strike, though, is expected to continue tomorrow. and caught on tape tonight on the busy highway 101 just outside san francisco, a truck jackknifing. look at this. tumbling over the median and veering into oncoming traffic.
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amazingly, no one was hurt in the accident. to washington now, and to growing pressure on the obama administration after the troubled rollout of the president's health care plan. angry republicans are calling for health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius to testify at a hearing come thursday. so far though, tonight, her office says she is unavailable. the president is expected to address the glitches in the program at an event at the white house tomorrow. you'll remember the 16-day government shutdown started with the fight to put obama care on hold. with texas senator ted cruz leading the charge, even as republicans were being hammered in the polls because of it. he is now drawing cheers now that he's back home, but also harsh words right here on abc's "this week," from republican favorite jeb bush. abc's senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny tonight. >> reporter: at home in texas, a hero's welcome. senator ted cruz lost the battle to dismantle president obama's health care law. some of his fellow republicans in washington stung by the government shutdown, hope he learned a lesson. but not here in texas.
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take a look at this sign of support around an oil field in el campo, texas, where businessman bruce lebay sent a clear message with 1,200 little foam cups saying, "we need more republicans like ted cruz." >> this fight, in my opinion, needs to stay focused on stopping the disaster that is obama care. >> reporter: the divisions inside the republican party show few signs of healing. >> tactically, it was a mistake to focus on something that couldn't be achieved. >> reporter: on "this week," former florida governor jeb bush called on cruz, and other republicans, to reconsider their fight. he says it's time to show how the health care law doesn't work and offer alternatives. >> i think republicans need to just toik take a step back and allow -- show a little self-restraint. >> reporter: but self-restraint has hardly been a trademark of the tea party. more big fights ahead in the gop are a good bet. so many senators here already worrying about those republican primary challenges. david? >> more fights to come, as you point out, jeff. thank you.
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and a political rally in virginia getting a lot of attention tonight, not just for the candidate, but really for the person who was endorsing him. hillary clinton was there to support terry mcauliffe and his bid to be the next governor of virginia. it was her first political event since leaving the state department and mrs. clinton, as you might guess, had plenty to say. >> i've been out of politics for a few years now. and i've had a chance to think a lot about what makes our country so great. what kind of leadership is required to keep it great. >> mrs. clinton has not said if she will run for president, but many point to events just like this one as an early step in that direction. and a shocking revelation from former vice president dick cheney tonight. he is speaking out now about real fears he had that terrorists could hack into his pacemaker, a fear that he says he watched come to life while watching an episode of "homeland."
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tonight, we're also learning something else, that his doctors had another fear about the vice president on 9/11. here tonight, abc's susan saulny. >> reporter: the showtime hit "homeland" ended last season with an assassination plot that seemed farfetched. >> his pacemaker can be wirelessly accessed. >> reporter: the vice president, forced into cardiac arrest when his pacemaker was hacked. >> i'm killing you. >> reporter: in reality, former vice president dick cheney, a man with a long history of heart trouble, was watching that episode. and in an interview with cbs news, cheney revealed how he felt his own heart device left him similarly, shockingly, vulnerable. >> i was aware of the -- the danger, if you will, that existed. but i found it credible, because i knew that it was an accurate portrayal of what was possible. >> reporter: cheney had the device implanted in 2007. doctors disabled the wireless feature out of fear that
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someone, a terrorist, perhaps, could manipulate it and disrupt his heartbeat. >> i worried that someone could kill you. >> reporter: and it was not just terrorists hacking the device his doctors worried about. six years earlier, it was the stress of the attacks of september 11th. on that morning, doctors got the results of a test that showed cheney had a potentially fatal surge of potassium in his blood. a fact the vice president didn't know at the time. his doctor telling cbs, as the events of the day unfolded, he thought, quote, the vice president is going to die tonight. but cheney insists his poor health had no impact on his decision-making as vice president. >> i was as good as i could be, you know, i wasn't worried about it. >> reporter: as for his good health today, cheney calls it a miracle. susan saulny, abc news, washington. >> susan, thank you. and now what could be an historic penalty. a record fine for america's biggest bank. there is word tonight jpmorgan chase is set to pay $13 billion for its role in the financial meltdown, selling bad mortgages to investors.
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it's a headline that's expected to break wide open tomorrow and abc news contributor and bloomberg anchor betty liu is with us now. betty, a lot of people wondering, where does this money go? does any of it goes back to the consumers who were burned in this thing? >> reporter: it is a staggering amount of money. and here's how we believe it's going to break down. of that $13 billion, $4 billion will go towards homeowners. the other $9 billion will pay government fines. >> but there is always a fear, betty, that when the banks are fined, they pass that along to the consumer to make up for it. >> reporter: it's a legitimate concern. the bank says, we have $23 billion to pay these costs, so, we're okay. but every time you pay uncle sam this much money, you got to earn that back, perhaps in higher bank fees. >> betty liu, thank you. we turn overseas now to australia, where crews are battling the most destructive fire ever to strike that country's most populated area. the battle line is 190 miles long now. that fire destroying more than 200 homes, killing one man that was trying to save his home. officials do expect conditions
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to get even worse. declaring a state of emergency for the next 30 days to deal with the catastrophe. and from kenya tonight, new security video from inside that mall where terrorists attacked, showing soldiers apparently taking advantage of the chaos. in the video, you can see kenyan soldiers walking through a store, each of them with a white shopping bag. some stopping to look behind counters. store owners now complaining that when they were allowed back inside, much of their merchandise had been stolen. back here at home tonight and there's a new twist in the case of a boy scout leader caught on tape knocking down an ancient rock formation and cheering about it. tonight we've learned that just weeks earlier, he had filed a lawsuit claiming he was disabled, looking to collect damages. many now asking, so, how then was he able to knock over that rock? here's abc's aditi roy now. >> reporter: this video touched off a criminal investigation into the toppling of this jurassic-era boulder at a utah park. >> yeah! >> reporter: and now, boy scout leader glenn taylor is facing even more scrutiny.
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just last month, taylor, who tipped over the ancient rock formation known as a goblin, sued allen mcdonald and his then 16-year-old daughter for causing him, quote, serious, permanent and debilitating injuries after a car crash. taylor defended the suit to a local reporter. >> you don't look very debilitated in that video. >> you didn't see how hard i pushed. >> reporter: but taylor insists his lawsuit is a havalid one. before the latest news of this suit broke, he told us he and his companions thought the rock was loose and brought it down before it landed on anyone. >> how much pressure did it put on it? well, i wasn't trying to put pressure on it other than moving my body. i'm not a small guy. that's some weight behind it. but it went. >> reporter: mcdonald says after seeing the video, he now has doubts taylor suffered any injuries. >> somebody with a bad back who is disabled doesn't step up and push a rock that big right off its base. >> reporter: abc news reached out to taylor's attorney. he declined to comment. but said in an earlier interview
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that just because his client is beginning to recover from his injured back doesn't mean he hasn't suffered from pain in the past. aditi roy, abc news, san francisco. >> all right, our thanks to aditi tonight. there is still much more ahead on "world news" this sunday evening. have you played this game? it's the new online gaming sensation. triggering a sugar rush for millions, but for many, it is the sugar crash that's costing them time and now money and so many mothers included. we all remember this. the rush, the excitement, the euphoria. oprah giving away brand new cars. you get a car, you get a car. well, tonight, what she's parting with now, and it could be yours. we're back in just two minutes here. [old english accent] i doth declare that thou have brought overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full -- a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth! what are you doing? we doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare.
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tonight, though, some are warning that people are getting too hooked, with many families paying the price. here's abc's reena ninan. >> reporter: they are the bright, shiny, sugary candies that many are finding hard to put down. some even choosing to game over the family. >> well, i was on vacation in cancun and i'd find myself leaving the pool to go back to the room and i'd be playing candy crush, trying to get to the next level. >> reporter: like 53-year-old denise, 100 million people worldwide play candy crush every day. the game is pretty simple. swipe the candy pieces in any direction to match and crush three or more of the same pieces. after a certain level, you have to pay to continue. the maker of candy crush, king, pulls in as much as $636,000 each day. $231 million a year of players hungry to get to the next level. there are reasons why players just can't seem to put the game down. >> look at the colors. i mean, they really are beautiful. very soothing music. the voice that gives you the positive reinforcement.
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>> sweet! >> reporter: and like playing vegas slots, there are rewards to keep you going. >> this whole idea of, you're achieving, it feels good, after awhile, you just keep playing to get that dopamine released. >> reporter: sorry, doctor, what did you say? >> see what i mean? >> reporter: smart devices are loaded with games from angry birds to words with friends and farmville. designed to lure you in to keep playing. some even include what's called a visual sparkle every six seconds to keep you engaged. unlike some other gaming apps that hire trained sigh come jilss to be consultants to make their games more rewarding, king tells abc news, the company, quote, does not employ sigh come jilss or behavioral economists to provide input on its games. king, the maker of candy crush, tells us 70% of its players in the u.s. are woman. i spotted a woman playing it on the subway today. she said she's been on level 23 for the past week, debt pratt to move on. >> stuck on 23. one of the crew members said he had to take it off his iphone
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tonight, though, the player who told us he wouldn't have it any other way. here's abc's sara haynes. >> reporter: alfred morris, the washington redskins running back, is now sprinting into his second year in the nfl. >> inside the 10. touchdown! >> reporter: so, you might expect this fast athlete to zip up in a flashy fast car when he arrives at the stadium. not exactly. behold, the 1991 mazda 626. the first car he ever owned. the car he affectionately calls the bentley. >> i remember, he's like, that's your car? i thought it was the janitor's car. i wondered wide he kept parking in our spots. >> reporter: and he bought it for just $2 from his college pastor. >> he said, $2. and i was like, $2? that's it? >> reporter: and every day since, this 22-year-old mazda has been his car of choice. and when mazda heard his story -- >> i didn't have a radio, they put a new radio in it. >> reporter: they gave the 626 a
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bit of a makeover. >> new tires, new wiring, new hoses, new alternator, transmission. pretty much anything they could make new, they made it new. >> reporter: but for morris, refurbishing the car was never his priority. he loved everything about it. right down to the dents. >> they didn't take away from what the car was, what it meant to me. so, that's what really makes it even more special. >> reporter: morris is now hoping for another 20 years and those 124,000 miles? a daily reminder of every mile that got him here. sara haynes, abc news, new york. >> driving away in that '91 mazda with a radio now, no less. good for alfred, setting an example for the rest of us. "good morning america" in the morning. diane right back here tomorrow night. from all of us here at abc news, have a great week ahead. we'll see you soon. good night.
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what federal investigators have uncovered so far in the deaths of two b.a.r.t. employees. >> what could bring b.a.r.t. management back to the table to help end the strike. >> a look at how cool it's going to get in the bay area this week. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. good evening. i'm ama daetz. tonight, federal authorities are investigating how two b.a.r.t. employees died despite a strike that halted train service. sky 7hd -- we're looking at ground video but the train was stopped on the track after the accident, bat mile north of the walnut creek b.a.r.t. station. nick smith begins our live team coverage now to tell us what ntsb investigators found so far. reporter: you know, ntsb
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investigators in charge jim fouts finished speaking an hour ago. he says he wants to investigate exactly what happened with that train that killed two b.a.r.t. employees. he says this is no longer being treated as a criminal investigation. this week he and his team will interview everyone on the train at the time of the accident and the operator of the train will be tested for drugs and alcohol, which is standard operating procedure. >> just before 4:00 p.m. the train involved in the accident was moved from the scene and teen a secure location. ntsb investigator in charge says that mechanical inspections will be performed and they are collecting digital records and looking at safety protocols. >> a full inspection of the equipment, men can cal inspection of every operation on the train, inside and out, wheels, brakes, third rail, everything. >> officials have not s

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